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I can't help much when it comes to the SATA Situation since I don't know much about these new, much faster hard drives. However, I'd suggest checking in the BIOS again to make sure there isn't a switch to enable the SATA bus if it's disabled by default (may be since SATA is fairly new and I'm sure a lot of people don't have them yet).
As far as not having a floppy-drive. These days it isn't really necessary although I still prefer to have one in since they are under $10 - why not? $10 to save a headache once and while is well worth the money in my opinion. I'd recommend getting a CD-RW in that computer if you don't have one already, they are so cheap now that it's worth it as well. The great thing is if you have your computer set to boot from cd-rom, you can make a bootable cd-rom through Nero and use that as a startup disk if you wish. Like I say, even though floppy drives are quickly becoming non-existant and not needed I still prefer to have one in the computer just to save a headache once and a great while when you might just need that capability.
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